Author:Hesiod

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Hesiod
(fl. 8th century BCE/fl. c. 700 BCE)

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Greek poet and rhapsode (a professional reciter of poetry); sometimes mistakenly described as "Hesiod of Cumae" in reference to his father's home Cyme in Aeolis

Works

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, transl. by H. G. Evelyn-White (1920)
Theogony
Works and Days
Shield of Herakles or Hercules
Catalogue of Women

Works about Hesiod

“Hesiodus”, by Leonhard Schmitz in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
Hesiod, and Theognis, by James Davies (1873)
"Hesiod," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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